Later this year, the new amphitheater will host concerts, weddings, birthday celebrations, family reunions, church functions and other events.

We’re opening up, literally. New restaurants are opening this week, old places — including Bryant’s — are reopening, and we have new locations, moves, and ticketed events coming.

A plate lunch with plenty of protein and vegetable options is available for $10 at Broadway Pizza for weekday lunch.

A recap of the week that was, plus a little talk about what’s safe to eat and where you draw the line, particularly when it comes to leftover Easter eggs.

Curries can be a simple and tasty weeknight dinner, but you need to know a shortcut or two first.

Joes’ Fried Chicken, Joes on Highland — whatever you wanted to call it — is closed for now but will open again as soon as the owners find a new place.

Before the pandemic, the Memphis Farmers Market brought out as many as 2,000 visitors on a Saturday in peak season. This year, 61 vendors have signed up to sell goods in the pavilion.

Andalusia opens, adding Moroccan cuisine to the line-up of good food available on Sanderlin in East Memphis.

Dining at Ecco, a secret about Slim Chickens, Memphis in May Barbecue is back, and The Majestic Grille is opening this week.

Deni and Patrick Reilly, the husband and wife team that own The Majestic Grille, are back on Friday and they have the restaurant shined and ready to welcome guests.

For $4, you can get a torta that’s roughly the size of a regular barbecue sandwich at a small taqueria on the edge of Bartlett.

The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest is back after sitting out 2020. 

Slim Chickens opens Monday in Collierville. This is the second franchise in the Memphis area, and Davis, Hull & Rowden have plans for more.

Though Ecco sits off the beaten path, it’s a treasure tucked away in Evergreen. The food is good as ever and there’s plenty of outdoor seating with more coming.

For its fifth birthday, MemPops offers a $2 birthday special in its three brick-and-mortar locations this weekend.

Bari will leave its home of 19 years in May and move to a former yoga studio on Cooper, where it will have room to expand outdoor seating and parking.

Jennifer Biggs and Chris Herrington revisit their favorites from Memphis Black Restaurant Week and talk about their favorite Southern dish: Fried catfish.

After more than a year, The Majestic Grille is reopening on South Main, all spiffed up and ready to go with most of its original menu and familiar faces.

Parish Grocery is moving from Overton Park to Cooper-Young; The Parish has opened in Hernando; and One & Only BBQ has reopened on Perkins Ext.

The Grizzlies have gotten part of what they hoped for in the trade for Winslow. On the docket as well: The trade deadline is March 25.

“The Brews Every Which Way” pays tribute to the 1960 blues collaboration between Peter “Memphis Slim” Chatman and Willie Dixon.

It’s been a year since Memphis restaurants were told to close their dining rooms. As a second year of the ‘hustle and pivot’ begins, the vaccines and Health Directive 19 offer relief. Still, as one restaurateur says, ‘I go to bed every night stressed.’ 

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